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with the Crimean War. And it was all women. Now, though,
half of the students in our nursing schools are men. Women
physicians came in first in this country, then in England, and
then in Austria between 1860 and 1890. Madame Curie’s sister
[Bronisława Skłodowska] was the first woman doctor graduated
in Paris.
So in knowledge work, men and women do the same work.
This is new and unprecedented. It is a recent invention. And, by
the way, it has its problems. It is still very difficult in Europe. In
Japan, it is impossible. We are about the only country where the
problems are not major. In this country, we have adapted to this
very easily.

From a lecture given at Claremont Graduate University.